Summary
Sofia Wawrzyniak is a deployment strategist with six years of experience bringing advanced cryptography and verifiable AI systems to production, currently driving rapid deployments at Palantir. Her background spans founding and early-stage roles—helping build EZKL for AI verifiability and designing custom ASICs for zero-knowledge, homomorphic encryption, and post-quantum workloads at Fabric Cryptography—bridging research and practical engineering. She co-founded FranklinDAO and led Penn Blockchain, combining protocol governance, open-source development, and quantitative approaches to tackle hard distributed systems problems. Comfortable moving between research labs, investment banking internships, and product-focused teams, she pairs rigorous academic training from Penn Engineering and Wharton with a bias for shipping secure, auditable systems. Notably, she is actively consolidating her open-source footprint on GitHub, signaling a growing public portfolio of cryptography and deployment work.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Economics (concentration in Finance/Business Analytics), Bachelor of Science - BS Economics (concentration in Finance/Business Analytics) at The Wharton School
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Science at Penn Engineering
University of Pennsylvania